April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 27

A girl in Dublin put salt in her friend's drink as a trick; her friend had a medical condition that meant salt could make her ill, and she was sick for the afternoon.

Who acts: girl, friend, medical condition, salt · What happens: put, have, mean, make, be · To what, where: salt, drink, medical condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, friend, medical condition, salt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 drink	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drink	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 friend	case
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 trick	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trick	det
14	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 condition	det
20	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 condition	amod
21	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 meant	nsubj
23	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 condition	acl:relcl
24	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 meant	ccomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ill	nmod:poss
28	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 make	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sick	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sick	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sick	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sick	cop
33	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 afternoon	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 afternoon	det
36	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sick	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	a girl in Dublin	salt	girl's friend's drink		as a trick	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme in drink=Destination
2	have	past	girl's friend	a medical condition				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Patient
3	mean	past	a medical condition					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	could	salt				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	is	past	salt			afternoon	sick property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:27.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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